to still book our DS (16) as a 15 year old at a Premier Inn?

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I’m probably going to get a flaming for this but here goes.

We only have DS, he can’t stay in a PI by himself until he’s 18. If we booked him in as an adult, as he’s classed as one now he’s 16, we’d have to pay for another room. So for now, while we can still just about get away with it, we book him in as a child stating he’s 15.

In one PI where we’ve stayed many times over the years, a couple of the regular staff are aware but they’re ok with this. He doesn’t get up for breakfast so doesn’t benefit from the ‘kids eat free’ deal.

AIBU to carry on doing this for as long as we can get away with it? Not that he’ll likely still want to come away with us in the next few years.

My personal opinion is that on the one hand they class 18+ as adults but want to charge a 16 year old adult prices.

Presumably it's fairly obvious the lad is 17 and not 15... If PI don't care, why do you?

Though I doubt a 25 year old would want to share a room with his parents anyway but I’ve done it with friends before and no one better an eyelid.

Goodness I can't fathom you thinking that this is a useful contribution to a perfectly put AIBU.
For what it's worth OP YANBU.

Exactly this regarding the flaming.

As for free breakfast, he never gets up on time these days 😆

In general, I'm not in agreement about lying about a child's age to get a free entrance ticket etc.

But, I think this is a different situation. Premier Inn rules are a bit bonkers, and you're not asking for anything extra for free. You are just asking that your teenager sleeps in the same room as you, rather than his own room, and him being 16 v 15 doesn't really make any difference. I would think it a bit dodgy if you were helping yourselves to the free breakfast that he's not entitled to, but since you're not, I think it's fine. You're not taking anything you're not entitled to or haven't paid for. (I'm actually wondering whether the free breakfasts up to 16 are why PI have the cut off as 16 for a child in a family room?)

We do it with ds who is 19. We always pay for his breakfast but because he looks young we often have to convince the staff that he should pay.

We did this recently, it was fine and the free breakfast was a bonus.

Do you think families with 17 year olds somehow don’t need the “help”?

Often we actually do book two rooms with 21 year old dd in the 2nd room. But opposite sex siblings don't want to share.

It's probably designed to avoid stag parties booking out 2 rooms for 8 adults (and then sneaking more in afterwards.) Or perhaps just a money grabbing thing to make say a mother taking their two 16 year old dds pay double for their holiday. It doesn't impact other families at all. It leaves a room spare for them

that is precisely why we stopped using them
and took a tent instead!

That’s probably the case - but it still happens.

PI is different to the other chain hotels in that respect as all of the others I’ve used allow 3 adults in a room so it always feels like a money grab

I’m not a scab, my DS is 14 🤷‍♀️. I just don’t see why anyone would give a shit about this. A 17 year old is a child and my child has eaten far more than me since he was about 8 years old! Times are hard right now and they’re just as hard for parents of older children as younger children. And I’m sure the poor child is not “scoffing” just eating like everyone else 🙄.

Well before I was doing it either completely free conscience. Obviously I assumed adult meant 18 and up and didn’t look too closely. Sorry if that offended Soontobe60. Just carried on with making booking as I had done before without noticing.

Next time I will think about it: ‘shall I follow the rules or not.’ I think that comes under ‘the morals’ doesn’t it?

I didn’t see that thread but seriously WTAF - these situations always being out the sort of pearl clutching comments that most of us have never encountered in the real world. And thank God for that.

The drama over something that doesn’t impact their lives AT ALL amuses me no end

My parents made me pretend to be 15 once so that we could do this… I was 22.

I didn’t pretend. Just checked in with them and didn’t say anything. No one batted an eyelid.

(it was just a quick stop over on a very long drive before anyone comments on the weirdness of a 22yo sharing with her parents)

One premier inn wouldn’t let me book dd (15) as an adult. We’d booked it online as two adults but when we checked in the guy insisted we had to be in a family room. Fortunately he found one. He came up with some weird reasons why we couldn’t do book her as an adult. It’s really stupid as those extra beds are far too small for a teenager so she ended up sharing the double bed anyway.

Also if you have two adults and a 16 and 17 year old for example you have to lie a bit even to get two rooms by saying that one adult will sleep in each. Or I guess you have one parent and one child in each room or stay somewhere else. The rules are bonkers.

Depends whether you think the rule in question is one that is a “moral” rule.

People with a 16 year old not paying double for their holiday is not going to affect your kids getting to "scoff" free breakfasts. Don't be silly. As for you calling someone a scab. WTF!

Agreed.

If they dont want this sort of thing, dont charge a 16 year old for being 18 and expect people not to charge a 16 year old for age 15.

Cant have it both ways.

@FerretFumbler did you read the part where OP was clear he doesnt have breakfast?

Travelodge will let you have 3 adults & one child in a family room.

My ds is 22 and still 15 for premier inn purposes 🤣🤣🤣